I am the unnoticed, the unnoticable man:
The man who sat on your right in the morning train:
The man who looked through like a windowpane:
The man who was the colour of the carriage, the colour of the mounting
Morning pipe smoke.
I am the man too busy with a living to live,
Too hurried and worried to see and smell and touch:
The man who is patient too long and obeys too much
And wishes too softly and seldom.

I am the man they call the nation’s backbone,
Who am boneless; playable castgut, pliable clay:
The Man they label Little lest one day
I dare to grow.

I am the rails on which the moment passes,
The megaphone for many words and voices:
I am the graph diagram,
Composite face.

I am the led, the easily-fed,
The tool, the not-quite-fool,
The would-be-safe-and-sound,
The uncomplaining, bound,
The dust fine-ground,
Stone-for-a-statue waveworn pebble-round

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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus

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Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh

Poems in English 

• Robinson by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• The End Of The Library by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• La Vita Nuova by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• Interregnum by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• Dead March by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• Covering Two Years by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• Colloquy by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• A Musician’s Wife by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• 1926 by Weldon Kees by Weldon Kees
• Woods by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• Water by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• The Wish to be Generous by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• The Silence by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• The Real Work by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• The peace of wild things by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• The Man Born to Farming by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English
• The Lilies by Wendell Berry by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

Doska or the Board – write anything

Search engines:

Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)

Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.

Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees

Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.

Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.

 

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